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http://www.businessinsider.com/nine-people-are-dead-in-missouri-and-the-police-arent-answering-questions-about-what-happened-2015-2The mass murder in Missouri may have been sparked by the killer finding his dead motherhttp://www.businessinsider.com/nine-people-are-dead-in-missouri-and-the-police-arent-answering-questions-about-what-happened-2015-2
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:19:00 -0500Harrison Jacobs
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54f07cedecad04bc4fcb7819-1137-853/screen-shot-2015-02-27-at-91500-am.png" border="0" alt="Screen Shot 2015 02 27 at 9.15.00 AM"></p><p>Eight people were found dead by gunshot wounds in an apparent mass murder in multiple locations of rural southwest Missouri, according to local media reports. </p>
<p>The killing spree <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suspect-may-have-gone-on-missouri-killing-spree-after-finding/article_ce9f62ae-77fb-5bc8-8acf-7528549a174b.html">may have been triggered by the alleged gunman</a> finding his mother dead of natural causes in her home, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.</p>
<p>After finding his mother's body, the 36-year-old gunman reportedly went to four homes, killing seven and wounding one. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The shooter</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> was later found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in a parked car in adjacent Shannon County. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>"In our job we see a lot of bad stuff, and this is bad. This is also hard on the police officers who are working that there. It's not natural to see that sort of thing. They were as shocked as a lot of the people are in this room," said Missouri State Highway Patrol Sergeant Jeff Kinder during a press conference on the shooting.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span>The killings took place in a thinly populated, rural part of the state, near the Mark Twain </span><span>National Forest</span><span>. The region is known to attract tourists for its hunting, camping, and river rafting.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The investigation began when a 15-year-old girl in Tyrone <a href="http://www.jrn.com/ktts/news/Major-Incident-In-Texas-County-Involving-Possible-Deaths--294347381.html">heard shots in her house and immediately fled to a neighbor's house where she called 911</a>, according to the local radio station KTTS. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The neighbor has told the Springfield News-Leader that the girl<a href="http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/missouri/2015/02/27/9-shot-dead-at-multiple-crime-scenes-in-rural-missouri/24110945/"> told him that both her mother and father had been shot</a>. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span>"She was barefoot, in a nightgown with no sleeves at all and her legs were all scratched up from briars," he told the Springfield News-Leader. "She said she seen a man in her dad's bedroom, talking to him in a normal voice. Then she said she heard gunshots and screaming."</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">When police responded, they found two bodies in the house. After further investigation, police found five more dead bodies in three other locations. In the third location, a man was shot dead, while his wife was shot mutliple times and survived. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The victims ranged from 40 years old to mid-60s and included three women and four men. All had been shot by a handgun.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Later on, the body of an elderly woman was found by deputies in another location. The woman was suffering from an undisclosed illness and reportedly died of natural causes.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Texas county coroner Tom Whittaker <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/27/tyrone-missouri-9-dead/24108089/">told KSDK-TV's Mike Rush</a> that the suspect found the woman, supposed to be his mother, dead on her couch on Thursday night. Whittaker believes her death sparked the killings.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">"We're s<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suspect-may-have-gone-on-missouri-killing-spree-after-finding/article_ce9f62ae-77fb-5bc8-8acf-7528549a174b.html">peculating that he came home and found her deceased</a> and then for whatever reason went on a rampage and started killing people," Whittaker told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "This is just so strange. Right now, with the shooter dead, we don't know. Is there something that sparked this? We're still in the information-gathering stage."</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">According to Whittaker, the suspect had a history of drug use, but it is not known at this time if he was under the influence.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Tyrone resident Jerry Langsdon, who lives nearby the first crime scene, described what he experienced on the night of the shootings:</span></p>
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<p>Here are two of the alleged crime scenes:</p>
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Multiple killings under investigation in southern Missouri <a href="http://t.co/U4JuhV6LXz">http://t.co/U4JuhV6LXz</a> <a href="http://t.co/0q64asMzaa">pic.twitter.com/0q64asMzaa</a> </p>— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/571306144297328640">February 27, 2015</a>
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<p class="embed-spacer">During the Friday morning news conference by the Missouri State Highway police, Kinder told media that the department's division of Drug and Crime Control was working the active crime scenes in conjunction with the Tyrone County Sheriff's Department.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>The </span>Houston <span>Herald newspaper reported that employees at area schools were told to arrive early to console students.</span></span></p>
<p><em><strong>This post was originally published at 8:59 a.m. It has since been updated.</strong></em></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nine-people-are-dead-in-missouri-and-the-police-arent-answering-questions-about-what-happened-2015-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/drunk-driving-checkpoint-regulation-hack-2015-2">A lawyer in Florida has come up with an ingenious way for drivers to evade drunken-driving checkpoints</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/at-least-8-people-killed-in-czech-pub-shooting-2015-2At least 8 people killed in Czech pub shootinghttp://www.businessinsider.com/at-least-8-people-killed-in-czech-pub-shooting-2015-2
Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:36:00 -0500AFP and Amanda Macias
<p class="p1"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54ec98276da811312c09bdf5-894-506/screen shot 2015-02-24 at 10.26.02 am.png" border="0" alt="czech shooting">An armed man killed nine people on Tuesday after storming into a pub and opening fire in the eastern Czech town of Uhersky Brod, state television said.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Czech mayor Patrik Kuncar said the shooter was a man around 60 years old and was killed in the attack, the <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/168fb416b841447d870ccc9890198bbc/mayor-8-dead-czech-restaurant-shooting" target="_blank">Associated Press reports</a>.</span></p>
<p id="yui_3_9_1_1_1424791022130_1124">"According to our information, there are nine dead on the spot," Czech television channel Ceska Televize (CT) said.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The area surrounding the pub has been cordoned off, and traffic is being diverted.</span></p>
<p>Police spokesman Pavel Benedikt Stransky refused to confirm the information but said the gunman "has already been subdued."</p>
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<p>UPDATE: 8 killed in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Czech?src=hash">#Czech</a> pub shooting – Interior Ministry <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UherskyBrod?src=hash">#UherskyBrod</a> <a href="http://t.co/HjleA4Kec8">http://t.co/HjleA4Kec8</a> <a href="http://t.co/qLeywPrXOM">pic.twitter.com/qLeywPrXOM</a></p>
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<p>Breaking: Scene of restaurant shooting in town of Uhersky Brod, Czech Republic. 8 dead, "subdued" <a href="http://t.co/lRDIv9p2FY">pic.twitter.com/lRDIv9p2FY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CT24zive">@CT24zive</a></p>
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<p>Nine killed in restaurant shooting in Eastern <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Czech?src=hash">#Czech</a> republic – TV <a href="http://t.co/YKCCOGLCFE">http://t.co/YKCCOGLCFE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UherskyBrod?src=hash">#UherskyBrod</a> <a href="http://t.co/qsSHm6CUcG">pic.twitter.com/qsSHm6CUcG</a></p>
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<p>nine people have been killed in a shooting in a restaurant in Uhersky Brod in the Czech Republic <a href="http://t.co/0uDtfirSdP">pic.twitter.com/0uDtfirSdP</a></p>
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Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:43:00 -0500Amanda Macias and Reuters
<p><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/54dff3e96da8114932608f0d-1200-858/rtr4pl70.jpg" border="0" alt="copenhagen"></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A gunman opened fire at a Copenhagen synagogue hours after a </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/report-shooting-at-free-speech-event-in-copenhagen-2015-2" target="_blank">shooting at a free-speech event</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in the city on Saturday.&nbsp;Police later <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/danish-intel-chief-copenhagen-attacks-may-have-been-inspired-by-islamic-radicalism-2015-2">killed</a> a man believed to have carried out both attacks, which authorities say were likely inspired by Islamic radicalism.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"></span></p>
<p class="p1"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54dffd8deab8eab47e191dae-702-662/map%20skitch.png" border="0" alt="map skitch">At the synagogue, one <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">person was shot in the head and later died while two police officers were shot in the arms and legs, the </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"></span><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_DENMARK_SHOTS_FIRED?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2015-02-14-19-34-22" target="_blank">Associated Press reports</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p>Earlier on Saturday, a civilian was killed and three police wounded when a masked gunman shot at the windows of the Krudttoenden cafe in a <a>Copenhagen. </a></p>
<p>The venue was holding a free speech event attended by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred controversy in 2007 with his drawings depicting the Prophet Mohammad as a dog.</p>
<p>The gunman used an automatic weapon to shoot through the windows of the Krudttoenden cultural center, according to police, and fled in a dark Volkswagen Polo that was later found empty on the outskirts of Copenhagen.</p>
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<p>Media reports and witnesses on Twitter described the attack, saying between 20 and 40 shots were fired from an automatic weapon. Television footage showed windows of the arts center and cafe riddled with bullet holes.</p>
<p><span>French ambassador to </span>Denmark<span> </span>Francois Zimeray<span>, who also attended the event, compared the shooting to last months attack on </span>the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo<span> in </span>Paris<span> by Islamist militants. </span></p>
<p>"I'm still a bit stunned. I was inside, I had just sat down after my speech and then I heard shots," Zimeray told French news channel TF1.</p>
<p><span>Danish officials have described the shooting as an act of terrorism and an assassination attempt, </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wounded-shooting-copenhagen-synagogue-hours-cafe-attack/story?id=28968413" target="_blank">ABC News reports</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>"We feel certain now that it was a politically motivated attack, and thereby it was a terrorist attack," <span>Prime Minister </span>Helle Thorning-Schmidt<span> </span>told journalists close to the site of the attack.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54e0103f6da811104b608f07-1200-800/rtr4pm85.jpg" border="0" alt="copenhagen">President Obama was informed of the attacks and released the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/14/statement-nsc-spokesperson-bernadette-meehan-shooting-copenhagen" target="_blank">following statement</a>:&nbsp;"The United States condemns today’s deplorable shooting in Copenhagen. We offer our condolences to the loved ones of the deceased victim, and our thoughts are with those wounded in this attack. We have been in close contact with our Danish counterparts and stand ready to lend any assistance necessary to the investigation."</p>
<p><span>Officials released a security camera image of the alleged suspect wearing a dark coat and a red hat and scarf covering much of his face.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54dff1d16bb3f71e0eb2f9cf-992-745/shooter-1.jpg" border="0" alt="shooter">In January, 17 people were killed in France in three days of violence that began when two Islamist gunmen burst into the Paris offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, opening fire in revenge for its publication of satirical images of Mohammad.</p>
<p>Vilks, who drew <span>Mohammad as a dog in 2007,</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> has received numerous death threats and has lived under the constant protection of the </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Swedish police</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> since 2010. Two years ago, an American woman known as Jihad Jane was sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting to kill him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">(<em>Reuters <span>reporting by <span>Sabina Zawadzki and Ole Mikkelsen, </span>Teis Jensen and Annabella Nielsen in </span>Copenhagen<span>, Niklas Pollard in Stockholm and Michel Rose in </span>Paris)</em></span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-hebdo-shooters-have-taken-a-hostage-2015-1" >French Police Storm Hostage Sites, Killing Charlie Hebdo Shooters And Third Gunman</a></strong></p>
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Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:01:00 -0500Christina Sterbenz, Shane Ferro and Natasha Bertrand
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54df8e6969bedd435acd86c8-600-/copenhagen-shooting-1.jpg" border="0" alt="copenhagen shooting" width="600">Shots were fired Saturday <span>during a meeting about free speech&nbsp;</span>at a cafe in Copenhagen killing one civilian and wounding three police, <a href="https://twitter.com/guan/status/566624133682053120">Danish media is reporting</a>.</span></p>
<p>The space,&nbsp;Krudttoenden cafe, was hosting an event titled "Art, blasphemy and freedom of expression," organized by controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, according to the <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4b7df13ebb9b4858a1d4a4cbcc289d35/reports-shots-fired-copenhagen-cafe-free-speech-event">Associated Press</a>. He was not hit.&nbsp;<span><br></span></p>
<p>The French ambassador to Denmark was apparently at the event as well and tweeted that he survived the situation.&nbsp;</p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Magnus Bjerg, a reporter with Danish station TV2, one of the outlets reporting the shooting, tweeted a picture of what appears to be a glass window riddled with bullets.</span></p>
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<p><span>"I heard someone firing with an automatic weapons and someone shouting," Niels Ivar Larsen, one of the speakers at the event, told the AP. "</span><span>Police returned the fire and I hid behind the bar. I felt surreal, like in a movie."</span></p>
<p>Copenhagen police confirmed a <a href="http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/krimi/2015-02-14-live-attentatforsoeg-mod-muhammed-tegner-flugtbil-fundet">40-year-old civilian is dead</a>, and three police officers were wounded.</p>
<p>Originally, police thought two male assailants were at large, but witness interviews since have suggested there was only one gunman, according to Reuters. &nbsp;A getaway car, a black Volkswagen Polo, has been found, <a href="http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/krimi/2015-02-14-live-attentatforsoeg-mod-muhammed-tegner-flugtbil-fundet">TV2 is reporting</a>, and police have issued a photo of the alleged shooter.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Police said the shooting was specifically aimed at Vilks, and Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has officially labeled it a terrorist attack.</p>
<p>"We feel certain now that it was a politically motivated attack, and thereby it was a terrorist attack, in which one civilian was killed and three policemen were wounded," she told reporters, according to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/14/us-denmark-shooting-primeminister-idUSKBN0LI0TJ20150214">Reuters</a>. "We are on high alert all over the country."</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54df8457eab8ea1d1b191dad-678-450/screen shot 2015-02-14 at 12.18.42 pm.png" border="0" alt="Screen Shot 2015 02 14 at 12.18.42 PM" style="color: #000000;"></p>
<p>The artist stirred controversy when he drew the Prophet Mohammad as a dog (shown right). Sweden had recently&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/07/france-shooting-sweden-artist-idUSL6N0UM36L20150107">tightened security</a> around him after 17 people were killed as a result of the terrorist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.&nbsp;</p>
<p>After a Swedish magazine published Vilks' drawing in 2007, al-Qaeda in Iraq put a $100,000 bounty on his head, forcing Vilks to go into hiding, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/37089242/ns/world_news-europe/t/muhammad-cartoonist-attacked-during-lecture/#.VN-Di1tH1E4">Associated Press</a> reported.</p>
<p>Vilks' cartoons also motivated, in part, the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8198043/Sweden-suicide-bomber-Taimur-Abdulwahab-al-Abdaly-was-living-in-Britain.html">first suicide bombing</a> in Sweden's history in 2010.&nbsp;That same year, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/seven-held-in-ireland-over-plot-to-assassinate-cartoonist-lars-vilks-1918672.html">seven Muslims were arrested</a> in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate him.</p>
<p>Vilks was also assaulted in 2010 while giving a lecture at <span>Uppsala University. He showed the 250 attendees a "provocative film with sexual content" when one man ran up and punched him repeatedly.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>This video shows the aftermath of the attacks on Vilks inside the lecture hall:</span></p>
<p><iframe width="750" height="500" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lQQAWrIvBoI"></iframe><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While many Muslims had been protesting peacefully outside of the university, police had to hold off angry demonstrators shouting "God is great!" in Arabic with pepper spray as Vilks was escorted out of the lecture hall.&nbsp;</span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/report-shooting-at-free-speech-event-in-copenhagen-2015-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/taiwan-navy-stealth-missile-warship-corvette-2014-12">The Taiwan Navy Just Unveiled A Stealth Missile Warship Dubbed The 'Carrier-Killer'</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/craig-stephen-hicks-had-previous-run-ins-with-muslim-students-2015-2Man accused of shooting 3 Muslim students reportedly had run-ins with neighborshttp://www.businessinsider.com/craig-stephen-hicks-had-previous-run-ins-with-muslim-students-2015-2
Thu, 12 Feb 2015 05:59:35 -0500Michael Biesecker Emery P. Dalesio
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54db407569beddd66afd9835-480-/craig%20stephen%20hicks.jpg" border="0" alt="Craig Stephen Hicks" width="480"></p><p>CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina man accused of killing three Muslim students in a dispute over parking spaces had earlier run-ins with his neighbors, sometimes while wearing a handgun on his hip.</p>
<p>Police were still trying to determine whether religious hatred played any role in the shootings, which shocked the bucolic college town of Chapel Hill and left many residents grappling to make sense of the crime.</p>
<p>Charged with three counts of first-degree murder is Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, who has described himself as a "gun toting" atheist. Neighbors said Wednesday he always seemed angry and confrontational. His ex-wife said he was obsessed with the shooting-rampage movie "Falling Down," and showed "no compassion at all" for other people.</p>
<p>His current wife, Karen Hicks, said her husband "champions the rights of others" and said the killings "had nothing do with religion or the victims' faith." She then issued another brief statement through her lawyer, saying she's divorcing him.</p>
<p>Officers were summoned by a neighbor who called 911 Tuesday evening to report hearing multiple gunshots and people screaming.</p>
<p>Found dead at the scene were Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19. In a brief court appearance Wednesday, Hicks, who lived in the same apartment building as the victims, pleaded indigence and was appointed a public defender.</p>
<p>The women's father, Mohammad Abu-Salha, said police told him each was shot in the head inside the couple's apartment and that he, for one, is convinced it was a hate crime.</p>
<p>"The media here bombards the American citizen with Islamic, Islamic, Islamic terrorism and makes people here scared of us and hate us and want us out. So if somebody has any conflict with you, and they already hate you, you get a bullet in the head," said Abu-Salha, who is a psychiatrist.</p>
<p>The killings are fueling outrage among people who blame anti-Muslim rhetoric for hate crimes. A Muslim advocacy organization pressed authorities to investigate possible religious bias. Many posted social media updates with the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter.</p>
<p>"We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated, and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case," Chapel Hill police Chief Chris Blue said in an email.</p>
<p>Chapel Hill Police asked the FBI for help in their probe, and Ripley Rand, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, said his office was monitoring the investigation. But Rand said the crime "appears at this point to have been an isolated incident."</p>
<p>About 2,000 people attended a candlelight vigil for the victims in the heart of UNC's campus Wednesday evening. Several people who knew them spoke about their selflessness as friends recounted kindnesses they had extended to others through the years.</p>
<p>Barakat and Mohammad were newlyweds who helped the homeless and raised money to help Syrian refugees in Turkey. They met while helping to run the Muslim Student Association at N.C. State before he began pursuing an advanced degree in dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mohammad, who graduated in December, planned to join her husband in dentistry school in the fall.</p>
<p>Abu-Salha was visiting them Tuesday from Raleigh, where she was majoring in design at N.C. State.</p>
<p>"This was like the power couple of our community," said Ali Sajjad, 21, the association's current president.</p>
<p>Many of the condominiums in the complex are rented or owned by students and recent graduates at UNC, whose campus is about 3 miles away.</p>
<p>Hicks had less success: Unemployed and driving a 15-year-old car, his wife said he had been studying to become a paralegal.</p>
<p>A Second Amendment rights advocate with a concealed weapons permit, Hicks often complained about both Christians and Muslims on his Facebook page. "Some call me a gun toting Liberal, others call me an open-minded Conservative," Hicks wrote.</p>
<p>Imad Ahmad, who lived in the condo where his friends were killed until Barakat and Mohammed were married in December, said Hicks complained about once a month that the two men were parking in a visitor's space as well as their assigned spot.</p>
<p>"He would come over to the door, knock on the door and then have a gun on his hip saying, 'You guys need to not park here,'" said Ahmad, a graduate student in chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill. "He did it again after they got married."</p>
<p>Both Hicks and his neighbors complained to the property managers, who apparently didn't intervene. "They told us to call the police if the guy came and harassed us again," Ahmad said.</p>
<p>"This man was frustrated day in and day out about not being able to park where he wanted to," said Karen Hicks' attorney, Robert Maitland.</p>
<p>The killings were "related to long-standing parking disputes my husband had with various neighbors regardless of their race, religion or creed," Karen Hicks said.</p>
<p>Police have not said how Hicks got inside the condominium, but on Wednesday afternoon there were no visible signs of damage to the couple's door, which was affixed with orange stickers warning of biohazardous material inside. A wooden placard bearing Arabic script that translates to "Thanks to God" hung over their doorbell.</p>
<p>A woman who lives near the scene described Hicks as short-tempered.</p>
<p>"Anytime that I saw him or saw interaction with him or friends or anyone in the parking lot or myself, he was angry," Samantha Maness said of Hicks. "He was very angry, anytime I saw him."</p>
<p>Hicks' ex-wife, Cynthia Hurley, said that before they divorced about 17 years ago, his favorite movie was "Falling Down," the 1993 Michael Douglas film about a divorced unemployed engineer who goes on a shooting rampage.</p>
<p>"That always freaked me out," Hurley said. "He watched it incessantly. He thought it was hilarious. He had no compassion at all," she said.</p>
<p>A probable cause hearing is scheduled for March 4. Police said Hicks was cooperating.</p>
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<p>Dalesio reported from Raleigh. Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed in Chapel Hill, Jonathan Drew in Durham and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.</p>
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Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:14:00 -0500Saar Fresco and Adi Cohen
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54db87e9eab8eacf1afac3f4-983-501/screen%20shot%202015-02-11%20at%2011.47.23%20am.png" border="0" alt="Screen Shot 2015 02 11 at 11.47.23 AM"></p><p>A charity crowdfunding site set up by one of the victims in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, <a href="http://www.wral.com/three-killed-in-chapel-hill-shooting-46-year-old-man-charged/14438074/" target="_blank">shooting</a> quickly exceeded its goal on Wednesday of $20,000.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/arabprodigy30" target="_blank">Deah Shaddy Barakat</a>, 23, ran a campaign to provide dental care for Syrian refugees.</p>
<p>After Barakat was murdered Tuesday, along with his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu Salha, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, $9,000 flooded into his <a href="http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/syrian-dental-relief/206249" target="_blank">website</a>. Within hours, the campaign had exceeded its $20,000 goal.</p>
<p>Barakat was a dentistry student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On his crowdfunding page, he wrote:</p>
<p>"In summer of 2015, I as well as 10 local dentists and faculty from UNC School of Dentistry will embark on a trip to Rihaniya, Turkey to provide dental care to students of Salaam School."</p>
<p>Calls to donate are continuing to spread across social networks.</p>
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<p>Heartbreaking news from my home(town). 3 students executed. Join me &amp; donate to dental charity set up by one student. <a href="http://t.co/GY5ssZRB1S">http://t.co/GY5ssZRB1S</a></p>
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<p>The three deaths have also sparked a wave of general solidarity on social media, including many Twitter posts with the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&amp;q=%23MuslimLivesMatter&amp;src=tyah" target="_blank">#MuslimLivesMatter</a> and<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/chapelhillshootings" target="_blank">#ChapleHillShootings</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/north-carolina-shooting-victims-crowdfunding-site-goes-viral-2015-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/boys-asked-to-hit-a-girl-video-2015-1">What Happened When A Bunch Of Young Boys Were Told To Hit A Girl</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/r-man-arrested-after-shooting-three-dead-in-north-carolina-2015-2Gunman kills 3 Muslims near University of North Carolinahttp://www.businessinsider.com/r-man-arrested-after-shooting-three-dead-in-north-carolina-2015-2
Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:07:00 -0500Colleen Jenkins
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A gunman who had posted anti-religious messages on social media was charged with killing three Muslim students near the University of North Carolina in what police said on Wednesday was an ongoing dispute over parking.</span></p>
<p>Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, of Chapel Hill, was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder, the Chapel Hill Police Department said in a statement. He was being held at Durham County Jail.</p>
<p>Muslim activists demanded that authorities investigate Hicks for possible hate crimes in the killings late on Tuesday of the three students who were all involved in humanitarian aid programs.</p>
<p>"Our preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking," police said in a statement. "Hicks is cooperating with investigators and more information may be released at a later time."</p>
<p>Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said in a statement: "We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case."</p>
<p>On Facebook, Hicks' profile picture reads "Atheists for Equality" and he frequently posted quotes critical of religion. On Jan. 20 he posted a photo of a .38-caliber revolver that he said was loaded and belonged to him.</p>
<p>"Yes, that is 1 pound 5.1 ounces for my loaded 38 revolver, its holster, and five extra rounds in a speedloader," the post said.</p>
<p>The victims in the shooting are Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.</p>
<p>Barakat was a second-year dental student at the University of North Carolina. He and Mohammad were recently married, according to postings on a Facebook memorial page for the victims, and she was planning on starting dentistry school at UNC in the next school year.</p>
<p>Abu-Salha was a sophomore at nearby North Carolina State University, where her sister and brother-in-law were both alumni.</p>
<h3>Anti-religious statements cited</h3>
<p>A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told Reuters the three were Muslim.</p>
<p>"Based on the brutal nature of this crime, the past anti-religion statements of the alleged perpetrator, the religious attire of two of the victims, and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in American society, we urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to quickly address speculation of a possible bias motive in this case," said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.</p>
<p>The shooting sparked the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter on social media, with posters also questioning what role the students' faith may have played in the incident.</p>
<p>A Facebook page titled "Our Three Winners" was created to honor the victims, and a vigil was planned near the university's Chapel Hill campus for Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Officers responded to a report of gunshots at 5:11 p.m. local time (2211 GMT) and found the three victims, who were all pronounced dead at the scene, police said.</p>
<p>(Additional reporting by Curtis Skinner; Editing by Crispian Balmer and Howard Goller)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-man-arrested-after-shooting-three-dead-in-north-carolina-2015-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/flying-car-aeromobil-flies-430-miles-2014-12">This Flying Car Is Real And It Can Fly 430 Miles On A Full Tank</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/nypd-officer-indicted-for-shooting-and-killing-unarmed-black-man-in-stairwell-2015-2NYPD officer indicted for shooting and killing unarmed black man in housing project stairwellhttp://www.businessinsider.com/nypd-officer-indicted-for-shooting-and-killing-unarmed-black-man-in-stairwell-2015-2
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:32:00 -0500Colleen Long
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54da783ceab8ea0f375ad255-600-/akai-gurley.jpg" border="0" alt="Akai Gurley" width="600"></p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — A rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn public housing complex, accidentally killing a man who had been waiting for an elevator, has been indicted in his death, a lawyer said Tuesday.</p>
<p>Officer Peter Liang will appear in court Wednesday in the November shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, according to Scott Rynecki, an attorney representing Gurley's family. The charges against Liang weren't immediately clear.</p>
<p>Patrick J. Lynch, head of Liang's union, said he deserves due process.</p>
<p>"The fact that he was assigned to patrol one of the most dangerous housing projects in New York City must be considered among the circumstances of this tragic accident," Lynch said.</p>
<p>The indictment comes after mass protests and calls for reform of the grand jury system nationwide following a Staten Island grand jury's refusal to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man, and a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a white officer in the death of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old.</p>
<p>Gurley was black. Liang is Asian-American.</p>
<p>Rynecki said the shooting was unjustified, regardless of whether it was intentional.</p>
<p>"This is the first step for justice," he said.</p>
<p>Liang and his partner were patrolling the Louis Pink Houses, a public housing development in Brooklyn's gritty East New York neighborhood, on Nov. 20. The New York Police Department assigns rookie officers as reinforcements in parts of the city that have seen increases in crime. The housing project, where Gurley's friend lives, had been the scene of a recent shooting, robberies and assaults.</p>
<p>The officers had descended onto an eighth-floor landing when, 14 steps away, Gurley and the woman who had been braiding his hair opened a door into the seventh-floor landing after giving up their wait for the elevator so he could head to the lobby. The lights were burned out in the stairwell, leaving it "pitch black" and prompting both officers to use flashlights, police said after the shooting.</p>
<p>Liang, for reasons unclear, also had his gun drawn, police said. He was about 10 feet from Gurley when, without a word and apparently by accident, he fired a shot, police said.</p>
<p>Gurley was struck in the chest. The two made it down two flights of stairs after he was shot, but he collapsed on the fifth-floor landing and lost consciousness, according to the woman, Melissa Butler.</p>
<p>Gurley was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died, police said. Police officials pieced together the details of the shooting from radio reports and interviews with the girlfriend and the second officer, but they have not spoken to Liang and won't until after the criminal proceedings are completed. Liang was placed on desk duty after the shooting.</p>
<p>The indictment comes at a time of uneasy peace between the nation's largest police force and Mayor Bill de Blasio's City Hall. A rift widened between the police and the mayor after the Garner grand jury's decision when the police unions expressed outraged that de Blasio spoke of warning his own son, who is half-black, to be wary when dealing with police.</p>
<p>And when two officers were killed in an ambush weeks later, the police union leaders blamed de Blasio for fostering an anti-NYPD atmosphere that they believed contributed to the slayings. Hundreds of police officers repeatedly turned their backs on the mayor — including at the slain cops' funerals — and participated in a work slowdown.</p>
<p>Tensions have eased somewhat in recent weeks, and de Blasio released a carefully worded statement late Tuesday after Liang's indictment.</p>
<p>"No matter the specific charges, this case is an unspeakable tragedy for the Gurley family," the mayor said. "We urge everyone to respect the judicial process as it unfolds."</p>
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<p>Associated Press writer Jonathan Lemire contributed to this report.</p>
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Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:26:00 -0500
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54d3dfa5ecad048079c90e0f-600-/university-south-carolina-davis-college-campus.jpg" border="0" alt="University South Carolina Davis College Campus" width="600"></p><p>Two people died in a shooting at the&nbsp;<a class="cite">University of&nbsp;<span class="highlight"><span class="highlight">South</span></span>&nbsp;<span class="highlight"><span class="highlight">Carolina</span></span>'s</a>&nbsp;public health school on Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide, state police said.</p>
<p><a class="cite"><span class="highlight"><span class="highlight">South</span></span>&nbsp;<span class="highlight"><span class="highlight">Carolina</span></span></a>&nbsp;Law Enforcement Division spokesman&nbsp;<a class="cite">Thom Berry</a>&nbsp;told a news conference the shooting occurred in a room inside the school. No information was immediately available on the two people who died.</p>
<p>In an online alert, the school in Columbia,&nbsp;<a class="cite"><span class="highlight"><span class="highlight">South</span></span>&nbsp;<span class="highlight"><span class="highlight">Carolina</span></span></a>, reported a shooting around 1:15 p.m. and directed people to stay indoors and seek safe shelter.</p>
<p>About an hour later, the university said the threat had been lifted. It noted the school of public health remained closed and people should avoid the area.</p>
<p>Classes in the public health school had been canceled for the day, the university said on Twitter.</p>
<p>The university was otherwise operating under normal conditions, according to its website.</p>
<p>The State newspaper in Columbia reported that all buildings at the university had been locked down and that Governor&nbsp;<a class="cite">Nikki Haley</a>&nbsp;cut a news conference short on Thursday because of security concerns.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-shooting-reported-at-university-of-south-carolinas-public-health-school-2015-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/flying-car-aeromobil-flies-430-miles-2014-12">This Flying Car Is Real And It Can Fly 430 Miles On A Full Tank</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-central-bank-deputy-head-shoots-three-dead-2015-1Russian Central Bank Deputy Head Shoots 3 Dead In The Far East Of The Country Before Killing Himselfhttp://www.businessinsider.com/russian-central-bank-deputy-head-shoots-three-dead-2015-1
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 06:52:00 -0500Tomas Hirst
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54c77aa2ecad04544e365362-1200-924/russia-police-vehicle.jpg" border="0" alt="Russia police vehicle"></p><p>The deputy head of the&nbsp;Russian Central Bank directorate in the Amur region of the country has shot dead three people before turning the gun on himself, <a href="http://www.interfax.ru/420360">Russian independent news service Interfax reports</a>.</p>
<p><span class="notranslate">The killer, <a href="http://www.interfax.ru/420464">named in Russian media as Vladimir Levkin</a>,&nbsp;is alleged to have shot two women and a man in an office on the first floor of the regional Central Bank in the&nbsp;city of Blagoveshchensk.</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span class="notranslate">All three died at the scene.</span></p>
<p><span class="notranslate"> The motive for the shootings is unclear at this time, though <a href="http://rusnovosti.ru/posts/361867">Russian media is speculating that the shooter may have been having problems at work</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="notranslate">An official said:&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"Two women and one man are among the victims of the deputy head of the regional department of the Central Bank. One of the victims was also a deputy head of the bank, another the head of department of the bank and the third was a chief of a department of the bank."</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><em>Update</em><br></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.interfax.ru/420464">Russian media reports suggest</a>&nbsp;that the shooting could have been in response to Levkin's failure to&nbsp;pass certification and consequent loss of his leadership position at the bank.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">An official spokesperson confirmed that personnel changes at the bank had been discussed shortly before the shooting:</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"According to preliminary information, the day before [the shooting] the management of the bank held a working meeting. The discussion focused on personnel changes."</span></p>
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<p><span class="notranslate"><em>This story will be updated as soon as further information becomes available.</em><br></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-central-bank-deputy-head-shoots-three-dead-2015-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/report-shots-fired-inside-manhattan-home-depot-2015-12 Males Shot Inside Manhattan Home Depot http://www.businessinsider.com/report-shots-fired-inside-manhattan-home-depot-2015-1
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:21:00 -0500Christina Sterbenz and Harrison Jacobs
<p>Two males were shot inside the <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Home Depot on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, a public information officer with the New York City Police Department confirmed to Business Insider. </span></p>
<p>Another police source reportedly told <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/people-shot-home-depot-chelsea-reports-article-1.2091289?utm_content=bufferea9bf&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw">the New York Daily News</a> that the male shooter killed one man and then turned the gun on himself. The shooter was taken to Bellevue Hospital. He has <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/25/1-dead-1-injured-after-manhattan-home-depot-shooting/#.VMVjccO9GU4.twitter">since been pronounced dead</a>, according to CBSNewYork.</p>
<p>Both the shooter and the victim were reportedly employees of the store. </p>
<p>One witness heard someone scream, "F--- you" before two shots were fired around 2:40 p.m., the <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/01/25/shots-fired-inside-crowded-home-depot-in-nyc/">New York Post</a> is reporting.</p>
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<p>Photos show the store was crowded with people, likely stocking up for the impending snowstorm Sunday night. The store was evacuated, and the investigation is ongoing.</p>
<p>Witnesses <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/25/1-dead-1-injured-after-manhattan-home-depot-shooting/#.VMVjccO9GU4.twitter">described the chaotic scene to WCBS 880</a>. One witness said that employees told customers to drop whatever they had and run for the back door. Another witness describes "a massive run" that knocked other people onto the floor.</p>
<p><strong><em>This story is developing ...</em></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/report-shots-fired-inside-manhattan-home-depot-2015-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/flying-car-aeromobil-flies-430-miles-2014-12">This Flying Car Is Real And It Can Fly 430 Miles On A Full Tank</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/r-shooter-contained-after-gunfire-at-florida-mall-police-2015-12 Dead After Shooting At Florida Mallhttp://www.businessinsider.com/r-shooter-contained-after-gunfire-at-florida-mall-police-2015-1
Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:22:00 -0500Irene Klotz
<p>MELBOURNE, Fla. (Reuters) - Two people died and another was injured in a shooting at a shopping mall in Melbourne,&nbsp;<a class="cite">Florida</a>, early on Saturday, said police, who gave no immediate details about a motive for the incident.</p>
<p>The person wounded at&nbsp;<a class="cite">Melbourne Square mall</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a class="cite">Florida</a>'s&nbsp;<a class="cite">east coast</a>&nbsp;was in good condition Saturday afternoon, police said.</p>
<p>A police spokesman did not confirm whether the shooter had died. Earlier, police had said the shooter was contained after reports of shots being fired inside the mall around 9:30 a.m., prompting authorities to evacuate it and close it for the day.</p>
<p>Melbourne Mayor&nbsp;<a class="cite">Kathy Meehan</a>&nbsp;told&nbsp;<a class="cite">the Florida Today</a>&nbsp;newspaper the shooting was sparked by a domestic dispute between a woman who worked at the mall's food court and her husband.</p>
<p>Meehan, who was briefed by police, said after the man shot his wife, one of the woman's co-workers tried to wrestle the gun away and also was shot.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">This post was updated at 4:20 p.m. EST.</span></em></p>
<p>(Reporting by Irene Klotz; Additional reporting and writing by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Alison Williams and James Dalgleish)</p>
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Fri, 16 Jan 2015 04:11:00 -0500Dina Spector
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54b8d554eab8eaaa05e04595-1200-924/belgian-raid.jpg" border="0" alt="Belgian Raid">Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Friday.</span></p>
<p><strong>1.&nbsp;</strong>Police&nbsp;<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-paris-police-arrest-12-linked-to-shootings-as-kerry-arrives-2015-1">arrested 12 people Thursday night suspected of helping the gunmen</a>&nbsp;in last week's Pairs terror attacks.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">2.</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp; Two suspected jihadists were killed and one suspect was</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-man-held-in-belgium-over-possible-weapons-sale-to-paris-attacker-2015-1">arrested during a police anti-terrorist raid in the Belgian city of Verviers</a>.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">3. </strong>German police <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-german-police-arrest-two-salafist-suspects-in-raid-2015-1">have arrested two people in Berlin</a> as part of a raid on properties&nbsp;linked to radical Islamic Salafists.&nbsp;<strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span><br></span></strong></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">4.</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span></strong></strong>More than<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-foreigners-among-over-20-missing-after-tug-sinks-in-chinas-yangtze-2015-1"> 20 people are missing after a tugboat sank in the Yangtze River</a> in eastern china.</p>
<p><strong>5</strong>. A UBS note predicts that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-5-year-cds-2015-1">Venezuela has an 82% of collapsing within a year </a>as it will no longer be able to make payments to foreign investors due to falling oil prices.<span><br></span></p>
<p><strong style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;">6. </strong>The US and UK will <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30842669">launch staged cyber attacks on commercial banks in London and on Wall Street </a>as part of a new counterterrorism partnership.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">7. </strong>The US will <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-pentagon-to-deploy-400-troops-to-train-syrian-rebels-2015-1">deploy more than 400 troops to help train Syrian rebels</a> to fight the Islamic State.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-chinas-xiaomi-challenges-iphone-6-plus-with-new-flagship-mi-note-2015-1"><br></a></p>
<p><strong>8. </strong>Hong Kong has <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-hong-kong-student-leaders-charged-over-pro-democracy-protests-2015-1">charged three student leaders in the pro-democracy protests</a> with "inciting others to join an illegal assembly."&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">9.&nbsp;</strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-kerry-to-meet-hollande-as-belgium-holds-anti-terror-operation-2015-1">U</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-kerry-to-meet-hollande-as-belgium-holds-anti-terror-operation-2015-1">S Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with French President Francois Hollande</a> to patch things up after the White House admitted it made a mistake by not sending a senior American official to the unity march in Paris on Sunday.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">10.&nbsp;</strong></strong>A new study finds that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/science/earth/study-raises-alarm-for-health-of-ocean-life.html?_r=0">ocean life faces mass extinction</a>.<strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></strong></strong></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">And finally ...</strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<p><span><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/huge-great-white-shark-at-newcastle-beach-2015-1">Tom Hardy won't be starring in Warner Bros.' anticipated "Suicide Squad" movie anymore.<br></a></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-important-things-in-the-world-jan-16-2015-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/belgian-arms-dealer-confesses-to-supplying-paris-attackers-2015-1Belgian Arms Dealer Confesses To Supplying Paris Attackershttp://www.businessinsider.com/belgian-arms-dealer-confesses-to-supplying-paris-attackers-2015-1
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:46:00 -0500Amanda Macias and Reuters
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54b7c26f69beddb74bb5bc30-620-387/_amedy-coulibaly_3164639b.jpg" border="0" alt="Amedy Coulibaly"></p><p><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.637034" target="_blank">Haaretz reports</a>&nbsp;that the unnamed Belgian arms dealer is a "known figure in Brussels' underworld" who turned himself into police in the southern city of Charleroi on Tuesday out of fear.</p>
<p>Earlier, Belgian authorities had detained a man for arms dealing and are investigating whether he supplied one of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-hebdo-shooters-have-taken-a-hostage-2015-1" target="_blank">Islamist gunmen who together killed 17 people in Paris</a>&nbsp;last week, prosecutors said on Thursday.&nbsp;</p>
<p>He confessed that he had been in touch with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/paris-supermarket-gunman-linked-to-third-shooting-2015-1" target="_blank">Amedy Coulibaly</a>, the militant who took hostages in a Jewish supermarket in the French capital and was later killed by security forces.</p>
<p>Police searched his home and allegedly found documents relating to negotiations over the sale of arms.</p>
<p>According to police officials, the Scorpion machine gun and the Tokarev handgun used by Coulibaly during his attack on the kosher supermarket, which resulted in the deaths of four Jewish Parisians, came from Brussels and Charleroi.</p>
<p>The man said he also swindled&nbsp;in a car sale, but police later found evidence that the two had been negotiating the sale of ammunition for a 7.62 mm caliber firearm.&nbsp;</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54b7c09b6bb3f77a62bd40ef-770-675/2015-01-13t173241z702242576gm1eb1e02r501rtrmadp3france-shooting.jpg" border="0" alt="france shooting paris">Bullets of this caliber are needed for the Tokarev pistol that Coulibaly used in his attack on the supermarket in Paris, where he killed four hostages, and possibly in the shooting and injuring of a jogger two days earlier.</p>
<p>"The man is being held by the judge in Charleroi on suspicion of arms dealing," a spokesman for Belgium's federal prosecution said.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"Further investigations will have to show whether there is a link with the events in Paris," he added.</span></p>
<p>The Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers used by the Kouachi brothers in the Charlie Hebdo attack, which killed 12, were purchased by Coulibaly near the Gare du Midi in Brussels for less than&nbsp; $5,867 (€5,000/£3,870),&nbsp;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/11345264/Paris-attack-guns-bought-by-Amedy-Coulibaly-in-Belgium.html" target="_blank">The Telegraph reports</a>.</p>
<p>Earlier this week,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-al-qaeda-in-yemen-claims-responsibility-for-paris-attack-2015-1" target="_blank">Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility</a>&nbsp;for the attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying the assault on the paper's offices was ordered by the Islamist militant group's leadership, according to a video posted on YouTube.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence-officials-say-al-qaeda-might-not-have-ordered-paris-terror-attacks-2015-1#ixzz3OtBWjdu1">Those claims have met scrutiny</a>.</p>
<p><img class="center" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54b1689f69bedd626080b4f2-840-560/couple-100.jpg" border="0" alt="Hayat Boumediene and Amedy Coulibaly."><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-frances-most-wanted-woman-hayat-boumeddiene-2015-1" target="_blank">The&nbsp;search continues</a>&nbsp;for France's most-wanted woman, Hayat Boumeddienne, Coulibaly’s common-law wife, who is believed to have crossed the border to Spain to fly from Istanbul, where she later crossed into Syria.</p>
<p>Police suspect she might have had a hand in Coulibaly's supermarket hostage-taking, though she was not identified among the dead or wounded,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-frances-most-wanted-woman-hayat-boumeddiene-2015-1" target="_blank">AFP reports</a>.</p>
<p>The couple lived in a modest apartment in a poor suburb south of Paris.</p>
<p>Boumeddienne reportedly accompanied Coulibaly several times to a forest in southern France to shoot a crossbow.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/portfolio/2015/01/09/les-selfies-de-coulibaly-et-de-sa-compagne-arbalete-a-la-main_4552904_3224.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter#xtor=RSS-3208" target="_blank">Le Monde published</a>&nbsp;several photos of the couple holding up the weapon, with Boumeddienne wearing her niqab.</p>
<p>A court in&nbsp;Antwerp&nbsp;is due to deliver its verdict on 46 people accused of recruiting young men to join jihadists or of becoming jihadists in&nbsp;Syria,&nbsp;Belgium's largest Islamist militant trial to date. The court was to have given its verdict this week, but it was delayed for a month after the&nbsp;Paris&nbsp;violence.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-man-held-in-belgium-over-possible-weapons-sale-to-paris-attacker-2015-1" >2 Killed And 1 Arrested In Belgian Anti-Terror Raid</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:53:00 -0500Amanda Macias and Reuters
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54b803096da8114d78d03607-1023-796/map belgiu.jpg" border="0" alt="map belgium Verviers "></p><p></p>
<p>Two people were killed and one person was seriously wounded Thursday during a police counterterrorism raid in the Belgian city of Verviers, in the province of Liège near the German border,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_verviers-3-morts-dans-une-operation-de-police?id=8781055" target="_blank">RTBF reports</a>.</p>
<p>The operation was intended to check on suspected radicals believed to have returned to the area&nbsp;after taking part in the Syrian civil war.&nbsp;Belgium&nbsp;has seen significant <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/belgian-jihadis-in-syria-and-iraq-2014-8" target="_blank">radical Islamist activity</a> among its Muslim population.</p>
<p>"We recieved intelligence information that this group was just about to carry out some terrorist operations in Belgium," the Belgian federal prosecutor said during a news conference.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"The two suspects immediately began opening fire at the police officers before they were neutralized. The third suspect was arrested. No police officers or civilians were injured during the operation," the federal prosecutor added.</span></p>
<p>Local media reports detailed that gunshots and explosions were heard on a residential street near a railway station. Police raided an apartment above the&nbsp;Croissant d'Or bakery after receiving search warrants, RTBF said.&nbsp;This photo was <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanSoret/status/555776746973581312/photo/1" target="_blank">posted on Twitter</a> by a person in the area:</p>
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<p>The channel showed video of a building at night lit up by flames, with the sound of shots being fired. A local resident named&nbsp;Marie-Laure&nbsp;told RTBF said she was in the street with her children when a police commando told them to run for cover.</p>
<p>Here is a video of the scene posted on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXBdnKF0YAM" target="_blank">YouTube:</a></p>
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<p><em>(Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek; editing by Philip Blenkinsop and Crispian Balmer)</em></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-al-qaeda-in-yemen-claims-responsibility-for-paris-attack-2015-1" >Al Qaeda In Yemen Claims Responsibility For The Paris Terror Attacks</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 15 Jan 2015 03:55:00 -0500Dina Spector
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54b78096dd089531268b4643-1200-924/mourners.jpg" border="0" alt="Mourners">Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Thursday.</span></p>
<p><strong>1.</strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-divers-hunt-for-victims-in-crashed-airasia-jets-main-body-2015-1">Indonesian divers will hunt for more bodies from the crashed AirAsia jet</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, a day after the main body of the plane was found.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">2.</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-pope-to-begin-passionate-chaotic-philippine-visit-2015-1">Pope Francis will land in&nbsp;the Philippine capital of Manila on Thursday</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;as part of his five-day trip to Asia.</span></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">3. </strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The US casino giant </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-caesars-entertainment-unit-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-2015-1">Caesars Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span></span></span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">4.</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;Beijing issued a yellow alert Thursday as its <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1679860/cold-front-and-winds-expected-clear-heavy-smog-beijing-tonight">air-quality index soared past hazardous levels</a>.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><strong>5</strong>.&nbsp;<span>Climate researchers reported Wednesday that previous studies had&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/science/earth/new-research-may-solve-a-puzzle-in-sea-levels-rise.html">slightly overestimated the amount of sea-level rise in the 20th century</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><strong style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;">6. </strong>New <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/satellite-photos-show-horrific-damage-boko-haram-attack/story?id=28231796">satellite images from Amnesty International show the extensive damage to the small town of Baga in northeast Nigeria</a> from an alleged attack by Boko Haram.</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">7. </strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-chinas-xiaomi-challenges-iphone-6-plus-with-new-flagship-mi-note-2015-1">China's Xiaomi unveiled its Mi Note in Beijing</a>, its challenger to Apple's iPhone 6 Plus.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>8. </strong>France announced Wednesday that it was <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/99400e19843f40bb99572fdf2387ec6e/charlie-hebdo-sells-out-dawn-muhammad-cover">sending a military aircraft carrier,&nbsp;the Charles de Gaulle, to the Middle East</a> to work with the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants<strong>.</strong></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">9. </strong>SpaceX said last week's failed attempt to land its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating ocean platform occurred because the rocket's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-problem-falcon9-crash-landing-2015-1">guiding fins did not have enough hydraulic fluid</a>, causing the object to crash land.</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">10. </strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-is-building-a-600-mile-great-wall-to-shield-from-isis-2015-1">Saudi Arabia is building a 600-mile-long "Great Wall" to separate the country from Iraq</a> and protect itself from the Islamic State<strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</strong></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">And finally ...</strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/huge-great-white-shark-at-newcastle-beach-2015-1">Newcastle beaches in Australia have been closed for five straight days after repeated sightings of the largest great white shark the region has ever seen.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-important-things-in-the-world-jan-15-2015-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-important-things-in-the-world-jan-14-2015-1The 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Nowhttp://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-important-things-in-the-world-jan-14-2015-1
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 04:57:00 -0500Dina Spector
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54b63d7fdd089572318b45ba-1200-924/pope-francis.jpg" border="0" alt="Pope Francis">Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Wednesday.</span></p>
<p><strong>1.</strong>&nbsp;The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-issue-of-charlie-hebdo-sold-out-in-france-2015-1">new issue of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was released Wednesday</a>, and it sold out on newsstands within minutes.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">2.</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;Paris is still on high alert as the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30759008">hunt continues for accomplices of the gunmen in several terrorist attacks</a> on the city last week.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><strong>3. </strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-pope-sri-lanka-mass-live-report-2015-1">Pope Francis is in Sri Lanka</a>, where at&nbsp;least a million worshippers are expected to attend the papal mass on the seafront in the capital Colombo.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span></span></span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">4.</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-japan-approves-biggest-ever-defence-budget-amid-asia-tensions-2015-1">Japan approved its largest-ever defense budget</a>, allocating&nbsp;<span>4.98 trillion yen ($41.97 billion) for the year to March 2016.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><strong>5</strong>. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-russia-says-inflation-could-reach-17-in-2015-2015-1">Russia says inflation could hit 17% by March</a>&nbsp;as the ruble continues to fall amid declining oil prices.<span><br></span></p>
<p><strong>6. </strong>Indonesian officials say that within a week&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-indonesia-investigators-hope-to-get-clues-to-airasia-crash-in-days--2015-1">they will be able to get crucial information from the&nbsp;black-box recorders</a> retrieved from the crashed AirAsia jet.&nbsp;<strong><br></strong></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">7. </strong>The European Commission says talks between the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30798023">EU and the US over a comprehensive free-trade deal are facing "huge skepticism.</a>"</p>
<p><strong>8. </strong>A survey published Wednesday <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-british-jewish-people-fear-future-in-europe-2015-1">reveals a</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-british-jewish-people-fear-future-in-europe-2015-1">lmost half of British Jewish people fear they have no long-term future in Britain or Europe</a><strong><span>.</span><span><br></span></strong></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">9. </strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-fourth-ship-to-join-search-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-jet-2015-1">A fourth ship has joined the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight </a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">MH370 over an unmapped patch of the sea floor about&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">1,600 km (1,000 miles) west of the Australian city of Perth.</span></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">10. </strong><a href="er.com/report-craft-marketplace-etsy-plans-to-ipo-this-quarter-2015-1">The craft marketplace Etsy is reportedly planning an IPO</a> this quarter<strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</strong><a href=".%20http://www.businessinsider.com/r-fidel-castro-writes-maradona-to-quell-death-rumours-venezuela-tv-2015-1"><br></a></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">And finally ...</strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chipotle-has-stopped-serving-pork-at-hundreds-of-restaurants-2015-1">The Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle has stopped serving pork in its burrito and bowl dishes for the first time at hundreds of its restaurant locations, because of an issue with a supplier</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-important-things-in-the-world-jan-14-2015-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/new-charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting-video-2015-1New Video Of Charlie Hebdo Shooting Shows How Calm And Well-Organised The Killers Werehttp://www.businessinsider.com/new-charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting-video-2015-1
Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:00:29 -0500Jim Edwards
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54b5b1acdd0895332c8b45da-839-577/screen shot 2015-01-13 at 11.44.06 pm.png" alt="Charlie Hebdo" border="0"></p><p>A new video of the shooters who killed 12 people in a terrorist attack on the Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo shows the gunmen calmly stopping in the street after the massacre to reload their weapons and shout Islamic slogans to an empty neighbourhood. We first saw <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvOAG6OwaRY">the video on Sky News</a>.</p>
<p>The video suggests the killers were well organised, had a plan, and were confident of their success and escape. They pause to yell&nbsp;"We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad!" before driving on.</p>
<p>It also shows that a Paris police car, which ostensibly could have trapped them at the scene by blocking the street, was outgunned by the terrorists who fired on them from their moving vehicle, forcing the police to retreat.</p>
<p>The video was shot on a mobile phone by terrified witnesses cowering on a roof above the scene. They speak French, and at one point say they cannot believe their eyes, that the bullets can't be real. It becomes obvious that the bullets<em> are</em> real when the police car slams into reverse as the two killers, brothers&nbsp;Said and Cherif Kouachi, advance on them.</p>
<p>Here is the video. It does not show any blood or killing, but it does show scenes of shooting and violence from two men who have just killed an office full of cartoonists. As such, be warned — it is disturbing.</p>
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Tue, 13 Jan 2015 04:08:36 -0500
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/54b4d8e35afbd330488b456c-450-300/families-of-2012-connecticut-shooting-victims-sue-school-board-town-newspaper.jpg" border="0" alt="A sign is pictured in the Sandy Hook area of Newtown, Connecticut December 13, 2013. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri "></p><p>(Reuters) - The families of two of the 20 students killed in a 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, are suing the town of Newtown, Connecticut and the local school board over alleged lax security, media reported on Monday.</p>
<p>The suit, served by the families of slain Noah Pozner and Jesse Lewis, said the town was negligent for not installing classroom doors that could be locked from the inside or bulletproof glass on the school's front windows, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported.</p>
<p>Adam Lanza, 20, shot dead 20 first-graders and six educators in the attack on Dec. 14, 2012 -- one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.</p>
<p>The killings prompted a fresh debate on gun rights and last month the families of nine victims sued the maker of the gun that was used, an AR-15 assault weapon manufactured by Bushmaster, saying it should not have been sold to civilians.</p>
<p>After the Sandy Hook shooting, Connecticut's Democratic governor, Dannel Malloy, pushed through one of the strictest gun laws in the United States, banning more than 100 types of military-style rifles and limiting ammunition magazines to 10 bullets.</p>
<p>Town attorney David Grogins confirmed that the suit had been served, but he declined further comment, the newspaper added.</p>
<p>Calls for comment from the school board and Newtown officials were not immediately returned.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Crispian Balmer)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-families-of-2012-connecticut-shooting-victims-sue-school-board-town-newspaper-2015-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-important-things-in-the-world-jan-13-2015-1The 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Nowhttp://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-important-things-in-the-world-jan-13-2015-1
Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:42:00 -0500Dina Spector
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/54b4da8fdd08958e298b456d-1200-924/francois-hollandeangela-merkel.jpg" border="0" alt="Francois Hollande/Angela Merkel">Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Tuesday.</span></p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> France <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-france-deploys-10000-soldiers-charlie-hebdo-prints-new-mohammed-cartoon-2015-1">has ordered 10,000 troops to protect the country's sensitive sites</a>, including Jewish schools, starting Tuesday evening.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong>&nbsp;The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/this-will-be-charlie-hebdos-first-post-attack-cover-2015-1">next cover of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo</a>&nbsp;will&nbsp;feature the&nbsp;<span>Prophet Muhammad holding a sign that says "Je Suis Charlie," under the words "Tout est pardonné" or "All is forgiven," when it is released Wednesday.</span><span><br></span></p>
<p><strong>3. </strong>German Chancellor <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-germany-islam-merkel-idUSKBN0KL1S020150112">Angela Merkel announced on Monday that Islam "belongs to Germany,"</a> denouncing the anti-immigration protests in Dresden.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span></span></span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">4.</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;Australian <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-abbott-calls-isis-by-daesh-2015-1">Prime Minister Tony Abbott has started calling the Islamic State militant group by the name "Daesh,"</a> which the terrorist organization reportedly hates.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><strong>5</strong>. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-pope-begins-asia-visit-in-sri-lanka-2015-1">Pope Francis begins his second trip to Asia on Tuesday with a visit to Sri Lanka</a>,&nbsp;where he will meet the new president as well as&nbsp;<span>Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim leaders.</span><span><br></span></p>
<p><strong>6.</strong>&nbsp;Pro-democracy <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1678900/organisers-hong-kongs-february-1-democracy-rally-say-theyre-open-new">organizers in Hong Kong are planning another sit-in that could take place as soon as Feb. 1</a>.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-crashed-airasia-flights-black-box-pings-detected-indonesian-official-2015-1"><br></a></p>
<p><strong>7. </strong>The World Health Organization has submitted new documents in which the UN body&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-after-ebola-who-blames-governments-and-seeks-more-clout-2015-1">blames governments for the poor handling of the Ebola crisis and asks for more power and resources</a> to respond to emergencies.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-blood-red-sea-as-underwater-volcano-erupts-off-tonga-ash-delays-flights-2015-1">An underwater volcano erupted off the South Pacific island nation of Tonga</a>, turning the sea red and canceling flights.</p>
<p><strong>9.&nbsp;</strong>Long-haul <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-airbus-to-equip-long-haul-jets-with-floatable-black-boxes-2015-1">Airbus jets will soon be equipped with black boxes that can float</a> so the recorders can be more easily recovered.</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">10. </strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-fidel-castro-writes-maradona-to-quell-death-rumors-venezuela-tv-2015-1">Fidel Castro has sent a letter to his friend</a>&nbsp;former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona to quash rumors that the former Cuban leader might have died.</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">And finally ...</strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
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